'I scotch taped all of my classmates together': 25+ Class clowns who took school shenanigans too far

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jun 17, 2023 3:00 PM EDT

There's nothing like the perfect senior prank, but the lengths some teens will go to achieve it is striking. 

For some teens, being known as the person who pulled the perfect senior prank is really important. At many high schools, the prank is organized by dozens of people. And as the folks below told with their own stories, the results can be legendary and hilarious. Just don't get caught! A common punishment is not being able to walk in graduation, and no grad wants to miss that. It seems that a surprising amount of the people below actually didn't get caught, and are only confessing to the deed years later. 

From leading cows up flights of stairs they can't come down from, to pouring mass amounts of soap into a school pool, these people were rowdy teens. Not all are senior pranks, either — the prompt from u/Zer0Insentiv3 asked for people to name their funniest moments of chaos at school, so some folks told stories from their elementary school days. 

Next, this birthday host is not happy with a guest not showing up… so he's charging the dude with an expensive request. 

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    Vision care - 200 DontBruhMeBrah For one of our senior pranks, 20-30 of us bought about 5,000 bouncy balls, and threw them off the balcony overlooking the cafeteria during lunch. There were about 100-200 kids eating and they all flipped out. It was pure anarchy.
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    Font - r/AskReddit. Posted by u/Zer0Insentiv3 1 day ago 8 What funny thing happened at school that caused utter chaos for the faculty?
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    Font - groggyMPLS One time, in 1st grade, when the teacher left the room for 5 minutes, i scotch taped all of my classmates together. They loved it. My teacher came back, had a breakdown, and called my mother in tears. "He did what?" My mom asked. "He taped his classmates together!" "Is that all...?" My mom replied. Bless her.
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    Font - Physical_Stress_5683. A kid in grade 5 put sprout seeds in the fountain, it backed up the entire plumbing system over spring break
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    Font - 00 JulieFromJerz Hired a mariachi band to follow around our principal for our senior class prank. It was hysterical.
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    Font - o McFeely_Smackup. it wasn't funny, but when I was in high school, there were two teachers in the school that were married. I was sitting in the husbands classroom waiting for the class to start when another kid ran in and said "Hey Mr B, your wife is making out with Mr H in his classroom". Turns out they'd locked the door, but about a dozen kids were looking through the skinny door window watching them. The guy didn't even say anything. He just looked crushed. he just walked out of the c
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    Font - turned out his wife and the other teacher had been having an affair and he'd might have suspected, but having it confirmed by one of his students in front of the whole class was too much. The school didn't discipline the two cheaters, but the students sure as h both of them had to listen to "cheating" puns and jokes every day. "Hey Ms S, I'm going to copy off Joe's test, cheating is cool with you right?" kind of stuff. did. Neither came back the next school year.
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    Font - Haboobalub They banned shorts because they were not professional enough. So all the boys wore skirts as a protest.
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    Font - telnorp One of the classrooms at my school was a prefab hut, and over time it developed a hole in the floor at the back of the room (developed, or was helped, unsure). Every lesson I had in there for a good few months before they fixed it, someone would arrive, greet the teacher, and sit down.
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    Font - Then after a few minutes they'd arrive again, straight-faced "sorry I'm late sir", and sit down. Then again a few minutes later they'd arrive again... etc The fun part was watching the teacher playing the memory game of figuring out who'd arrived too many times.
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    Font - pieonthedonkey Freshman year one of my friends wanted to me run for student body vice president as a part of his counterculture party. He insisted on having me be his VP, to the point where he got all the necessary signatures for me to run without my knowledge and just went ahead and signed me up.
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    Font - We had to write speeches to get other kids to vote for us, and those speeches had to be approved beforehand by some faculty member. So I wrote a very disparaging speech about the validity and purpose of student council, laden with curse words and personal attacks towards our administration, thinking it would get screened ahead of time and they would disqualify me.
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    Font - I guess no one actually read my speech and just rubber stamped it, so on that morning they pulled me aside and handed me a printed out copy of my speech. I went ahead and gave my speech and I guess none of the faculty knew what to do because no one stopped me but they were clearly panicked and furious.
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    Font - I got a lot of laughs and applause. I assume it was too late to print all new ballots because when we went to vote my name was crossed out with a sharpie. I also got suspended for 5 days despite my explanation that I did not want to run and submitted my speech for approval, on time, fully intending to be disqualified. I was also told by some older student council members involved in the ballot counting process that I won by a landslide due to write ins and people just circling the black l
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    Font - Mandymayhem1221. 8th grade science teacher was talking about motion. He had a rope attached to a tennis ball, and was swinging it around his head. He accidentally let go and it hit the kid in the back of the class in the face.
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    Font - Livingroxets In my HS, there was a solid week where somebody set a trash can on fire daily. Nobody knew if it was one person or a group of people, but I think after day five everyone got pretty tired of having to stand out in the football field while the fire department inspected the area. It stopped after that week with no explanation and no word from the culprit.
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    Font - Second best was definitely the senior prank performed by the class two years ahead of mine. They bought crickets from our local PetSmart and set them free on our school's main staircase. It took forever to get rid of them and I can remember sitting in class and hearing faint chirping coming from seemingly every direction.
    via u/Livingroxets
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    Font - Big_Explanation_8803. A boy in my class brought some locusts in to show and tell. They escaped and got into the air vents. This was just before summer break. School came back to a full on plague.
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    Font - MrHyde_Is_Awake We managed to pull off an insane senior prank that took a month to prepare without anyone spoiling it. We switched with others for the whole day. Everyone switched with one other person, didn't have to be reciprocated. We had little cheat sheets on where we sat in each class, and what is going on in the class. We dressed like the other person, went to all their classes, used their name, and would not back down that we were someone else. A lot of us got our parents involved
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    Font - It got so bad the superintendent got involved, and we ended up having an impromptu half-day and just sent everyone home. More than a few of the staff threw (edited for autocorrect) very loud fits. We kept up the whole thing up for the rest of the year that we never switched places with someone else, and everyone was just remembering the day wrong.
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    Font - CRED phantommoose When my husband was about 11, he brought a 5-gallon bucket of garter snakes to school for show and tell. At lunch, all the snakes escaped, and they were catching snakes for weeks
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    Font - MrCondor Somebody unscrewed the classroom door and left it supported by the hinge tension, angry teacher came back from his march to the head of department and slammed the door. Except it didn't slam, rather come off the wall completely and absolute madness ensued. Ahh, good times.
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    Gesture - Spin_Critic Teachers went on strike in the 80's. We joined in just to get out of doing double maths. Chaos ensued.
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    Font - OurLordDevito We had this English teacher in high school who everyone hated. In my class there was a class clown we called "Big Zac" who sat at the back and always got in trouble for talking, laughing too loud, being an all around nuisance for her. He got sent to detention a few too many times for his liking and so he brought a bottle of Liquid A to her class.
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    Font - If you have not had the pleasure of experiencing the overwhelming foulness of Liquid A, allow me to fill you in: one spray is enough to stink up a room. Two is enough to clear it. Big Zac proceeded to unscrew the cap and EMPTY THE BOTTLE ONTO THE CARPET.
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    Font - The stench was so bad, one girl threw up, another fainted, and we had to clear the school. Literally an entire section of the school had to EVACUATE because the smell was too much. They ended up having to cut out the carpet in her room, her room was basically almost unusable for the rest of the year so we moved to a different room. Big Zac got In School Suspension (ISS) for I want to say almost a month. I still almost bust a gut laughing about it to this day.
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    Font - Fette BeuteHoch2 Our teacher had a smart (little car) and we managed to get it up to the third floor and put it In front of her classroom.
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    Font - Dippycat149 Senior prank when I was about 14, 15...the graduating class that year decided to get pounds and pounds and pounds of confetti...literally pounds...I have no idea how they got so much...and a ladder, or something...and they climbed up and poured it all down the pipes of the school organ in the assembly hall. Filled everything right up. Every single pipe.
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    Font - Come assembly-time two hours later, and it's confetti snow ALL OVER THE PLACE when the organ starts playing. Apparently the boys got permission from the school music teacher/organist to pull off the prank because they were throwing out that old organ, anyway - but he didn't tell anybody else, so the other teachers were losing their shit while confetti is flying all over the place.
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    Font - Safe_Wallaby3148. Someone put a cow on the roof. The cow couldn't come back down because, apparently, cows can't go down stairs. So they had to bring it down... with a crane.
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    Font - DontBruhMeBrah For one of our senior pranks, 20-30 of us bought about 5,000 bouncy balls, and threw them off the balcony overlooking the cafeteria during lunch. There were about 100-200 kids eating and they all flipped out. It was pure anarchy.
    via u/DontBruhMeBrah
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    Font - As we were running away, the campus security guard tackled one of the girls in the hallway. Took her to the office and she ratted on all of us. We all got a $200 fine for trespassing since we did it after graduation and had someone let us in the side door of the school. Cat, if you're reading this, it may be 15 years later but we still haven't forgotten. You owe me $200. Edit: funny enough I looked up the snitch on Facebook just for sots and giggles and her job? ing security guard. F Can'
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    Font - Moaoziz In the practical part of physics class, our teacher at the time showed us a few experiments with magnets and electricity. In the end, half the district (edit to clarify: district as in 'a part of the city', not something bigger) had no more electricity because the lines were overloaded.
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    Font - Thebambooguy Science teacher at the end of the day, on his last day working for the school, decided to drive his motorbike through the hallways. No one got hurt, but the school board was pretty irate.
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    Rectangle - Shouty_Dibnah Someone released a very angry pickle jar full of hornets at lunch. Chaos is an understatement.
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    Font - The school smelled like cheap bubble bath for weeks, and this was an outdoor pool in a west coast city, so all very open not a indoor high school. Pool was closed for months as they had to keep purging the system with anti foam agents. Wash and rinse. Whole schools PE schedule had to be rewritten to adjust for having the pool closed. I couldn't take credit was supposed to be a prank turned into this massive investigation.
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